Quagmire Watch

Consumed as the cableheads are with the stimulus package and Obama’s failed presidency, has any of them mentioned this story, which was in the Times of London?

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has demanded that American defence chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.
There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.
The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defence secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.
The president was concerned by a lack of strategy at his first meeting with Gates and the US joint chiefs of staff last month in “the tank”, the secure conference room in the Pentagon. He asked: “What’s the endgame?” and did not receive a convincing answer.

And now, back to Barack Obama: Failed President,on the History Channel—in fact, all the channels.

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 02/08/09 at 07:12 PM • Permalink

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He’s been in office for three weeks already and we’re still in a recession, he hasn’t passed single-payer healthcare, and the troops haven’t all come home! This isn’t the “change” I was promised. Hillary would have singlehandedly hunted down Bin Laden, built a new electricity grid, and saved all the polar bears by now. But nooooo! The Kool-Aid Drinkers forced Oblahblah down our throats!

Also? Asking questions about the military as commander-in-chief? Totally unpatriotic. Dude is a SuperSekrit Muslim Stalking Horse after all. Unless he’s a SuperSekrit GOP Manchurian Candidate. I can’t keep the conspiracy theories straight. All I know is, he’s not a natural-born citizen!

Mrs. Polly, they haven’t picked up on this yet. 

Apparently, when they got to the word “defence” the British spelling confused them, so they stopped reading and went back to flogging stories about a bong-addled Michael Phelps fathering octuplets with Angelina Jolie’s chubby sister…

Allan, the word “honour” also causes their circuits to short. As well as “honor”.

We all know that the Hillary White House would have been the beginning of the Thousand-Year Matriarchy, and she’d have had Al Quaeda beating their swords into ploughshares right in the rocks of Waziristan, though what you can do with a ploughshare in a Waziri rockpile I can’t guess.

Flak magazine has given us a picture of what .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) would have looked like. I particularly like Day 32: Show human side.

Whoops, I’m glad that didn’t happen! OK, Hillary Clinton’s First Hundred Days, by Flak magazine:
http://www.flakmag.com/rejected/first100days.html

I heard something about this on Morning Joe (a rare occasion I was up at dawn). Anyways it was mostly about how Obama was disrespectful to General Be tray Us…..no that’s not his name. What is that man’s name…....B…..b….anyways I think it’s close enough. But all that stuff of Obama not liking the new strategy and being COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF didn’t come across their lips.

It’s good at least one news organization is reporting REAL news about our President. I just wish it was from the United States. :/

Sorry that story was about Obama wanting the troops to be withdrawn out of Iraq in 16 months which General Petraeus doesn’t like idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojesepMW6lM&featu re=related

Comment by jane on 02/08/09 at 10:00 PM

The president was concerned by a lack of strategy at his first meeting with Gates and the US joint chiefs of staff last month in “the tank”, the secure conference room in the Pentagon.

He wants them to have a strategy? The nerve! The RealAmerican Military uses statergery.

God forbid our Master Plan of imposing order on a country that has wrecked every invading empire since Peter the Great by putting a green hat and a cape on a Unocal engineering consultant and calling him “President” should collapse in failure.

Unless we really need the heroin crop to fund off-the-books CIA operations, we should bag on this country and throw the ball back to Russia. Oh, and fuck the pipeline…we can’t defend it even if we get it built. We need to concentrate on stealing energy from South America, where we can project power much more easily.

What Strange said. We’re too broke to keep fucking around over there anyway. I say we use The Big Shitpile as an excuse to bring our troops home—from everywhere.

Well Betty, I see you have the sleeping cycle of a mink, much like me.

If anyone hasn’t seen the Frontline documentary on Afghanistan, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) which has some video, updates, and comments from soldiers and afghanis.

I think Obama’s seen it. One of the comforting things about him, whether he is disappointingly centrist or bafflingly non-confrontational or even infuriating, as per FISA, he is not unaware. That’s something.

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